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  1. Re:It's a shame... on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 1
    Like the bio weapon of measles? I'm particularly scared of the Al Queda chicken pox bomb...

    Oh, you mean like anthrax. Yes. It's important that 100% of people get vaccinated against anthrax, so that... wait, what?

    Yeah... neither of these are really applicable :)

  2. Re:It's a shame... on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    Since when do vaccinations come out of taxes? Only vaccinations I've ever had I had to pay co-pays on, and was paid by insurance by my employer (or my parents employer, back in the day).

  3. Re:It's a shame... on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They're already going to die from cancer.

  4. Re:It's a shame... on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 0

    If those vaccinated are still at risk -- that's one less reason to bother getting a vax, as far as many are concerned. It's taking a perceived risk in exchange for a non-guara

  5. Re:This guy is just blowing smoke. on Cop Seeks Wiretapping Charges For Woman Who Videotaped Beating · · Score: 1

    And I would like to point out that when cops face charges, their punishments are WAY less than civilians that face the same charge, and that often cops who have criminal records still get hired as cops in new jurisdictions. A criminal record does not keep a department from hiring an officer. And police unions often force reinstatement of those officers fired. The one in florida is bragging about their reinstatement rate right now.

  6. Re:lulz on NH Man Arrested For Videotaping Police.. Again · · Score: 1

    That's what I was thinking he thought when I rebuked him :)

  7. Re:lulz on NH Man Arrested For Videotaping Police.. Again · · Score: 2

    helicopter? huh? Check your brain. The only helicopter videos related to that were of the riots.

  8. Re:Yea, I take his advice like I take Gores on Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White' · · Score: 1

    Also: If there's snow on your roof, the sun is never going to reach the roof to make it hot anyway. The color doesn't matter when snow is on it.

  9. Re:Yea, I take his advice like I take Gores on Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White' · · Score: 1
    Did some more research. You're looking more wrong. In the summer, you cool the most in the day - when the sun is up. In the winter, you heat more in the night - when the sun is not a factor. Furthermore, in the winter, the sun is at a lower angle, so less heat gets in than in the summer; and the sun isn't as intense either. It's also not in the sky as long. So even if you were 50/50 hot and cool days, you're still better off with a white roof.

    I knew it wasn't as simple as you were saying.

  10. Re:Yea, I take his advice like I take Gores on Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White' · · Score: 1
    I doubt it's as simple as your characterizing it. For one thing, heat goes up. In the summer, that means it ends up trapped in your attic. If the attic is cooler, that helps. In the winter, having a hot roof isn't going to result in heat that travels back down into your living area, resulting in you changing your thermostat settings.

    I don't really know though. But the obvious bias in your post makes you that much less believable.

  11. Re:And then... on Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White' · · Score: 1

    But that would be spreading it out to everyone equally rather than to my roof :)

  12. Re:Obligatory stat on Congress Makes Deal To Renew Patriot Act For 4 Years · · Score: 1

    It's good that you at least consider the freedom of those you disagree with. That's what it's supposed to be about, and most Americans have lost your insight.

  13. Re:Four More Years on Congress Makes Deal To Renew Patriot Act For 4 Years · · Score: 2

    If your votes aren't keeping the country from going down the tube, are they really helping? If I put a 2-inch band-aid on a 6-inch gash, I'm slowing down the bleeding, but does it really make a difference? I'm not trying to start an argument, just trying to make people think.

  14. Re:PowerShell on Imagining the CLI For the Modern Machine · · Score: 1
    hehe, i don't know bash at all, i always used zsh under unix, back in the day.

    huh. Weird. My memory must be quite imperfect. I seem to remember running NDOS in 1988, but maybe it wasn't til 89 or 90. Weird!

    I still use it constantly! I can do almost anything faster than in the point and click way. Except selecting SOME files (via some basis that can't be defined in a regex/wildcard) and dragging them... then gui wins. :/

    Cheers.

  15. Re:PowerShell on Imagining the CLI For the Modern Machine · · Score: 1

    I still use it for my windows stuff.. but i'm sure there's a lot of stuff it can't do. It still gets updated though. I'm a few version behind because, in case this was not yet obvious, I resist change :)

  16. Re:PowerShell on Imagining the CLI For the Modern Machine · · Score: 1

    I use 4NT based on 4DOS based on NDOS, so it's a 20+ yr legacy. Too bad nobody else uses it though....

  17. Re:This isn't about customer experience on The Future of Shopping · · Score: 1

    If that was supposed to be an insult that carried any weight, you need more practice at the internet. I get unattended delivery anyway - I don't see the guy. We hear the boxes being loaded while watching TV (cause they always miss their delivery window) and move them to our kitchen in our pajamas and underwear :)

  18. Re:This isn't about customer experience on The Future of Shopping · · Score: 1
    So it saves the time of taking it out of your cart and putting it back in once. But I have to wonder how much time I lose by being inferior at the process of scanning compared to a paid professional. I guess you get experience points and level up and eventually get better at it after awhile :)

    (I don't have problems with produce or substitutions with Peapod delivery, though.) (But they do screw up every order a little bit, so you have to double check it, which arguably takes way more time than scanning, but can be done in the leisure of your own home, with is an issue if your misanthropic :))

    Hmmm. I have much to consider.

  19. Re:This isn't about customer experience on The Future of Shopping · · Score: 1

    I hear you. If there's going to be no humans, I may as well order online (which is how I get 99% of my groceries anyway).

  20. Re:This isn't about customer experience on The Future of Shopping · · Score: 1

    Yea, the scales didn't have printers when we tried this out. We stood next to one and looked. And the high unemployment of late is quite the indicator that americans with shitty skills don't just magically get jobs when you replace/outsource/insource them. And there is no "paranoia" or "feigning being insulted" when somebody calls you "mentally handicapped". No need to feign. That is a real insult. If anyone is feigning, you are feigning that I was not insulted. Goodbye.

  21. Re:This isn't about customer experience on The Future of Shopping · · Score: 1

    Most of it doesn't... But you do need to make some quick stops occasionally for milk & fruit.

  22. Re:This isn't about customer experience on The Future of Shopping · · Score: 1

    Maybe in your store. When my wife & I went, we looked around at length for an explanation and found none. I even stood within 2 feet of a scale while doing this....

  23. Re:This isn't about customer experience on The Future of Shopping · · Score: 1

    That is definitely a valid consideration. But what saves me the most time is ordering online. For $10 I never have to go there in the first place. It's at my front door. Takes 20 minutes with my wife to get $500 of groceries in. Saves us 2+ hrs each, as we go together.

  24. Re:This isn't about customer experience on The Future of Shopping · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I wouldn't have seen that!

  25. Re:Really like these devices on The Future of Shopping · · Score: 1

    That's very interesting. Not sure how I feel about that. When the cashier slowly figures it out, I can talk to my wife during that time so it's not as much of a total waste. Hmm..... Thanks for the info!